Bush's Speech on Iraq was Disingenuous, Non-Verbal Expert Says
President Bush’s Iraq television address conveyed "a stony lack of genuine intention, and he appeared disingenuous when he accepted responsibility for mistakes," according to University of Maryland dance professor Karen Bradley, who studies the nonverbal and movement behaviors of political leaders.
"There was not a moment of heartfelt or gut-level rhetoric. George Bush stilled his usual side-to-side rocking, reduced his smirk to an almost-unchanging grimace and read his speech as a recitation of mere facts," Bradley, an expert in Laban Movement analysis and a specialist in Movement for Actors, says.
"What he said mattered little for his case; he ran through the homilies and platitudes without belief.
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